The Sleuth

Diary entry 3

I went to the nurse of the police department Mari, I ask her to take care of the girl that we rescued before I started my own investigation on the case that no one was willing to work on. The girl was doing fine with her, she had been living with the nurse and helping her with the house chores, the nurse was even able to learn about the girls name as well as her past as to why she was sold to the syndicate. Apparently her parents was so addicted to gambling that they used her to criminalities and bad deeds and when they caught the attention of the authorities it got hard for them to score on banks and small business until they met recruiters and brokers of the syndicate, that is when they decided to sell her, Jenny. To my surprise Jenny has her own ability but to her extent she wasn't as accustomed to how she would be using it, so this came in as a two birds in one stone because not that I will be able to observe my son's ability but I will be able to see it in action if I will take the girl on training along.

The first day she came to the house for the training with my son, she was weaker than him and the ability that the nurse had told me was not showing it seems that her ability was not coming out of her or she is not using it. The moment my son and Jenny started a spar my son beated her with a quick sucker punch and it was enough to make her cry, I quickly run to her to make sure she is fine but as soon as I sat down beside her to check her the ground where her hands are faced down were slightly cracked as if she fell from that punch really hard, to think that she is still a child that must have hurt her.

After I checked on her and convinced her for another round of spar she jump to her feet eyes all glittery from her tears and hand clenched to a fist and ready for another round. The moment she readied her position she and my son exchanged some words "Hm so you’re not weak ha?"

"You'll see who will be on the floor next," before she threw a punch in the air a sound was heard from behind the position where my son was standing and a debris of woods coming from the wooden fence struck my son from behind as soon as the debris hit my son another punch in the was thrown this time my son ducked to his right and sprinted to Jenny’s lower right vision and jumped to strike her on the right cheeks making her fell to the ground.

"That’s some blow you got there, here." he helped her stand and her mood has not changed a bit since her first defeat from him. Though winning with less effort my son did an amazing job dodging those punch regardless of the ability he have seen or not, not even I know of her ability, but those punches that strikes from a distance, she will be a good combatant in the future and I should train her.

A month had pass since Jenny’s first training with my son and she had caught up to him I terms of strength training as for combat and mid fight strategy planning he always beats her, not one move from her had pass my sons eyes, and as time pass by I get closer to who and where I should go to in order to pinpoint the people responsible for children losing organs and gaining metal modifications for their body. But my next steps would need a time to be ready and I need to make sure my son and Jenny are ready to be left once I get the people running the syndicate in the city.

I am Peter, I am now training two children, this is my entry to this diary dated February 12, 2011.

Entry 3

I run to where the fight is occurring right after I arrived I went straight to where Grady lying flat on the ground "Aren't you going to help your boss?!" I shouted to three students standing on the other side of Grady lined up while Jean the one responsible for kicking Grady down on the ground is on top of the car that was crushed, seating and giving us a grin.

"They won't... they're working for me now. Now you three escort the students that will be the boss's new play thing, do lead them carefully while I finish my play thing here hehe" the three minions went ahead and escorted those two students from before. "Now who are you boy? If you wanna help him, be prepared hehe," Grady finally woke up after that kick.

"Can you stand up?" he threw my hand that I placed to his back head and quickly stood up.

"I can help myself, move away he's dangerous."

"I know and it looks like you can't stand your ground to him."

"Yeah no s**t I can get a hold of him."

"You want another round with him?"

"After that kick? He's all mine," I distanced myself feet’s away from him but as I do, he framed for a sprint and dashed towards the car where Jean is seating, once again a sound of a vacuum-like was heard coming from Jeans hands and a sphere had formed. Seconds had pass and a boulder a size of car came flying out of it, but Grady kept on sprinting toward Jean and the boulder.

As Grady approached the boulder he held out his left hand to touch the boulder and quickly he positioned his right hand for a punch to the boulder but as he strike his fist and the boulder did not made any sound as if it did not touched at all, but never the less the boulder went flying back to Jean with a speed double right after it came out of the hole that Jean made, a big crush was produced, metal and glasses flew to the area and Grady catches his breath from the sprint he did, "That should do it.... shifting objects that size for a fast pace and doing it twice really wears me out," Grady muttered to himself.

"Haha, to think that you can think mid fight, you're not empty headed after all," Jean stood up to where the cars were once held his right hand exhausted same as Grady.

"That rock was way too fast going, but I knew once I saw you touched the rock... your sending it back to me, so I open another hole on my hand sending it back to where I took it. But I guess my surrounding can't stand the force," Jean with his face looking all ready to do another move on Grady, when on a matter of second a hole was again opened on his right palm and in a flash he disappeared, he was gone for a five or seven seconds, making Grady anxious and the place got quieted for the moment he had gone...

Finally a sound of vacuum was heard, behind Grady a stick coming out of a hole smacked him making him fall on his knees second after the strike a hole opened in front Grady, "...but you still are an i***t, your sister was a good specimen for the boss she was happy when the operation was finished," Jean stood in front Grady gripping the stick and gaining his strength for a bash to Grady’s head.

I sprinted right between Grady and Jean holding the other end of the stick that’s about to hit Grady "Obviously you can't take him on huh" I muttered to Grady while he try to endure the pain from his back.

"I don't need your help, out of my way," he tried to stand up but could not 'that must have been a strong hit, I wonder what it's like inside those holes he creates' I pushed Jean back a few feet "So you chose not to be just a bystander... Who are you?"

"Class 3-C, Vince," After I spoke my answer a small hole opened on his palm and a vacuum sound was heard again but this time the sound got weaker.

"Ahhh Keith’s class, she'd been annoying a lot lately do you mind telling her to shut up sometimes?" he had disappeared after his thought 'can't believe I'm not the only who’s annoyed to her,' after a few seconds he has gone it got quiet, but I can see him... his eyes are the same the last time it got this quiet... he'll hit me in the back... again... NOW! I reached my left hand in the back and to what I expected a stick was what I found, I pulled the stick he was holding but he let go of it. He went back to where I had pushed him only now without the stick that he held.

"Now how did you know?"

"You're not that hard to read," Once again he opened a hole this time it is a size of a car and louder vacuum was all over the place moments later after the holes occurrence a wave of water appeared, but before the wave reaches me I felt a touch behind my back and I felt a familiar sensation as I float above the ground.

"His ability is not just teleportation," Grady held me while we float meters above the ground, "He can open portals as fast as a second but if you're faster you'll be able to at least give him a kick he's not used to being the receiver of a punch or a kick so that will be an easy knock out if your faster" I planned a way on how I will hit him as we float above the ground waiting for Jean to dissipate the water below.

"Throw me."

"Ok how? You’re already light weight."

"Exactly, do to me what you did to the boulder earlier."

"i***t we're high up above the ground and if he dodges you'll get crushed on the ground or he might send you somewhere else."

"I'll hit him for sure, just do it."

"Ok."

Grady gathered his strength to throw me just as the water were gone I felt the same sensation again this time I'm aware of what will happen. I can feel it, the speed I will reach mid-air, I can see him, reaching his right hand and opening a portal seconds after I make my striking pose, I can see it the portal he will open... a place of vast water ahead, he will try to send me to an ocean... I can see it all in his eyes moments before Grady shouts his battle cry as he releases all his energy for the throw.

....

"Gooooo!"

He unleashes his strength while changing how I weight simultaneously 'This should be enough to take all his strength, later he'll fall to the ground after this release wonder how will he be after that.'

"Aaaaah!" just as I was mid-air Jean stretches his arm and pointed his palm on my way and as I predicted he opened another portal.

I twist my body changing my straight forward position to vertical spin to avoid his portal, as I approach the portal I felt it's rim, it felt cold around the portal its rim is pulling me towards it and the slightest touch might suck me through it, but my velocity is enough for me to dodge his hands, the strength Grady put into the throw was incredible that I was able to fight the portals force. I spun my left leg along with speed of my body’s spin hitting Jean on top of his head giving me a clear hit making him loose his consciousness and stopping the portal.

"*Sigh* that should do it. I guess Grady was right on the fragility of this guy," I hovered my eyes to my sides and to turn my head to the back but to my surprise Grady was on Keith’s shoulder, 'I guess she never really left huh' "I didn't, I knew what you were gonna do and I was right. You're a skilled fighter I knew it," Keith replied with her telepathic ability.

"Hey! Good thing you're here."

"Yes I caught Grady before he fell! Ha-ha guess I'm that strong"

"Don't kid yourself, he made his body light, right?"

"Yes... seconds after I threw you the water vapored and I have no place to fall onto, so I replicate the gravity of moon so I can descend slower."

"Wait?! You did that?"

"Ok that settles your strength Keith, now let’s tie Jeans hands before he regain consciousness and take him to the student council room."

We let Grady rest while we tied Jeans hands to his back later after that we carried him straight to the student council room, good timing that we had that this happened after school hours and no one but Jay the school security guard was here, we even bumped into him before we enter the student council room. To his knowledge we just brought him here because of an illegal transaction he did or he bullied another student but the latter that we are with Grady who is well known to be his accomplice is with us, he let us carry on with our case as soon as Keith told him that the student council president ordered as to do so.

"Speak," right about we enter Prins lets us speak immediately.

"His Jean the one you told as to look for."

"Ah! pres you're not asleep."

"Should I be here?"

"You sure to be living soon Grady?" Prins stood up from his chair to go where we lay down Jean.

"Speak."

"What are you gonna do to him?" I held his hands as he was about to unleash him from being tied up, 'something feels strange here, he should be contacting a person with more authority in the school than him.'

"I'll be surrendering him to the principal to let him know that you are the one who found out what he did and be the witness to the trial tomorrow. Speak."

"Right, what about our deal?"

"Comeback here after school hours tomorrow and I'll be letting you know what you want to know, maybe you should join too Grady something about your sister concerns this. Speak."

"My sister?! What do you know what happened to her and how did you know about her, she disappeared 2 years ago, way before you even get to this school!" Grady burst with anger after he learns that Prins had an intel about the whereabouts of her sister that even he did not know a thing or two of what really is his sisters case, except that she was a victim of the said syndicate.

"I'll tell you both everything tomorrow, you may take your leave."

"I'll go with them Prins," Keith who’s been shaking after Grady’s outrage decided to take her leave with us.

We took are chance to leave the room after the talk and walked our ways out of the school. Grady whose been searching for her sisters whereabouts and possible kidnappers walked a separate path from us alone with a sorrowful face not because of his defeat from Jean but the fact that he is eager to find his sister, can't move forward because of how little is his information of her whereabouts. Keith and I walked together to the bus station to get her a ride home maybe I should be with her until she gets home although I need to go back to Moden University I need to clear up some info I got from Chief Jay it seemed that his suspicion about the student council got mixed up.

After I escorted Keith to the bus stop and made sure she has her ride home I went back to Chief Jay who’s taking his dinner at a canteen right beside the university. I sat beside him to just talk I would have ordered some food but I lost my appetite after the fight and that revelation that Prins said about Grady’s sister.

"Not eating today?" Jay asked as he took his sip of the soup his been devouring for some time now.

"I think I'll pass on this time, I just want some water please," I gestured to the server for a glass of water.

"Hey, just eat or at least order some appetizer... on me."

"No thanks you, I'm good, I think I'll just eat some leftover at home. Anyway I'm here because of something you said when I visited you the first time I got here," After enrolling here Jay asked me to come to his little guard house for a chat, that is when he filled me in on the syndicates operation around and inside the school, he himself cannot interfere to them as to they were too many for him to take on, but now there are two of us or even three if Grady would be willing to lend a hand. And thus the plan to take on the syndicate was made with Chief Jay with his reason of making the school as peaceful as before the Red Rum came in to school, me that aside for my work as a detective handling this case, I need to find my father’s whereabouts and Grady that has been looking for his sister, now has the path to her.

Just as I was about to take my leave a strange sensation was discerning through my back all the way to my front "Why is he here?" Jay who was taking his sip from the bowl stopped eating to try and look at the door behind him.

"Hmm this late aye," as well as the store keeper managed to recognize the sensation, "Hey boy be quiet for until this man leaves the place or he let you," I gulped as he warned me for who is about to come.

"Speak."

A deep voice entered my ear contrary to what I feel after I hear Keith voice inside my head. 'Prins?! He really leaves the school?' I wanted to speak but as my instinct kicks in as I see Prins enter the small restaurant my mouth shuts close. "Mr. Prins, never thought I'd see you this early in the night, another set of your usual?" the storekeeper spoke as though he had known Prins for some time and minding how he quickly warned me for Prins' arrival he must have been his acquaintance for a longer time.

"Yes and Sir Jay? Would you mind if you bring the food to the councilor’s office I can't stay outside for too long."

"Speak," again, as he spoke that word the sensation gets heavier... even double the weight I felt the first time I have heard it.

"Sure thing Prins," Chief Jay continued sipping from the bowl right after he responded to Prins.

"I'll get the dish finished quickly, oh and is this for two?"

"Yes and thank you as always, both of you," Prins left the restaurant right after he had his orders and as he take his leave the weight from my back quickly faded along with him.

"Hmm it seems your partner here doesn't know how Prins work, you didn't fill him in completely ha," the storekeeper whispered to Chief Jay just as Prins left the store.

"Oh I forgot about that... ah Vince, you should talk every time he tells the room to speak."

"But why? And you didn't respond the first time right?"

"Every time he enters a certain room around him the weather gets double, and every time he orders that room to speak anyone who spoke gets the exemption of the one-way-deal he has. In my case I got used to it because as talkative as I am I got trained to the first double. For example, take a peek outside its heavily raining. What we felt earlier was the pouring of the rain on our back and its cold temperature, if you did not speak like what you just did it would be like a typhoon was pouring down on you except of course the wet part" 'Oh that's why I felt the bliss on certain parts and not just all over me it's the rains droplets temperature'

"But, when I first met Prins with Keith, she wasn't able to just talk to him through her telepathic ability"

"That's because of his second ability. That's no secret I'm more surprised you don't know," Jay quickly changed his mood and stopped from eating.

"You know how a person should only have one complicated ability in the world?" it is given that in the whole world that a person should only be given one ability and having another would make them crazy some even killed themselves out of only the mere moment their second ability showed itself, but few individuals with unknown first ability successfully regain their consciousness from the discovery of their second ability, Prins' case may be the same as theirs, but with an ability that affects the surrounding and another that is on the same category as the first he must have a trump card or some sort to flourish that kind of power.

"Wait, if his only two abilities do not really make a hit on someone is it really enough to make him the student council president I mean even Grady can knock him out?"

"He's a trained assassin," What?! An assassin? 'Now that's a progress maybe I shouldn't leave at all.' I returned to my sit beside Chief Jay and listened to him.

"An assassin? Do you mind telling me more about Prins?"

"Why don't you ask him yourself... to what I have heard from him and the councilor they have been dealing with the safety of the students and the syndicate. Maybe he even join your little troops," Jay continued eating the last bit of what is left on the bowl down to bits of pork in it, contrast to what he shows he is really fast for his weight, you can never imagine a fat guard would outran you on a race.

'Maybe I should really ask Prins to what he knows so far and ask him to cooperate once our deal has been dealt with.'

The day had been really eventful so far... the school have changed far from what I have known it was... more specifically on its safety.